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Zusatztext This is a book which significantly deepens our understanding of how classics could exert an influence in a colonial context ... All in all, and most importantly, while this book answers many important questions, it also provides a wealth of evidence to support future research into the nature of the relationship between the classics and empire. It is of undoubted value to scholars specializing in the field of classical reception, classical studies more broadly, and wider audiences interested in the history of classical scholarship and modern intellectual history in a colonial context. Informationen zum Autor Phiroze Vasunia, Reader in Classics and School Director of Research at Reading University Klappentext Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the minds of the British colonizers, and highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity. "This book discusses intriguing analogies between physical and economical phenomena. In fact, methodologies borrowed from physics were crucial for the development of economical models in the past, e.g. non-equilibrium statistical physics opened the gate for the financial derivative pricing. The book may catalyze a broader discussion among economists and physicists about roots of the current economical crisis and ways the global economy should be stabilized." Zusammenfassung This extraordinary book provides a detailed account of the relationship between classical antiquity and the British colonial presence in India. It examines some of the great figures of the colonial period such as Gandhi, Nehru, Macaulay, Jowett, and William Jones, and covers a range of different disciplines as it sweeps from the eighteenth century to the end of the British Raj in the twentieth. Using a variety of materials, including archival documents and familiar texts, Vasunia shows how classical culture pervaded the thoughts and minds of the British colonizers. His book highlights the many Indian receptions of Greco-Roman antiquity and analyses how Indians turned to ancient Greece and Rome during the colonial period for a variety of purposes, including anti-colonialism, nationalism, and collaboration. Offering a unique cross-cultural study, this volume will be of interest to literary scholars and historians of the classical world, the British Empire, and South Asia. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Illustrations Introduction Part One: Alexander in India 1: Dreams of Alexander 2: Sikandar and the History of India Part Two: Caesar in Peccavistan 3: Greater Rome and Greater Britain 4: Visions of Antiquity: Architecture and the Classical Style 5: Competitionwallahs: Greek, Latin, and the Indian Civil Service Part Three: Co-operation and Liberation 6: Homer and Virgil 7: Aristophanes Wealth and Dalpatram s Lakshmi 8: Athens in Calcutta: Derozio, Dutt, and the Bengal Renaissance Epilogue: Gandhi, Nehru, Socrates Bibliography ...
